Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down

The OpenAI agents had "essentially acted as a fanatically devoted collective", Amodei said.In its comments about the incident, OpenAI said "the significance of the inter-agent communication activity was not apparent to the leaders" until July and the company was slowing down training of certain advanced AI models and tools as a result, noting that there was now an increased risk of AI tools spiraling out of control.In his essay, Amodei called for "building AI at a balanced rate that aims to ensure its safety while still achieving its benefits".This would not mean "halting model training or technical progress, but ensuring companies take adequate time to align and safeguard their models, and for third party evaluators to confirm this". He was committing Anthropic to this "unilaterally" - as well as calling on governments "to require other frontier companies to match".In his blog, he recognised that regulation might not be able to keep up with the pace of AI, and therefore called on AI companies to "voluntarily work together to set standard" in parallel with regulation. The Anthropic CEO went on to address the impact that a slowdown would have on the industry and competition with leading developers worldwide, particularly China."I believe that if slowing down bought us even an extra year or two before models reach critical levels of capability, and we used that time to advance alignment, we could greatly reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong," Amodei said.